Tang Congxin, an art school reject, accidentally travels through time to the Great Zhou dynasty, ruled by an empress, and becomes Tang Zhi, a neglected and fallen imperial grandson. Powerful ministers and aristocratic clans regard him as a puppet, intending to put him on the throne and use him to usurp power. Caught at the center of a storm of political intrigue, Tang Zhi sees through the game being played across the realm. Determined to disguise himself as an incompetent nobody while secretly laying his plans, he carefully navigates between competing factions, rising from an overlooked discarded pawn to rewrite his own destiny.